"Corfu-gate", the semi-scandal involving a pair of British politicians who accepted the hospitality of a Russian billionaire on his yacht in August, looked set to embroil both main political parties in a murky cause celebre with potentially explosive consequences. Instead it is fading away, and no heads have rolled.rnOn October 25th Peter Mandelson, the business secretary, admitted that he first met Oleg Deripaska, who is barred from entering America, in 2004-two years earlier than he had first indicated. But he rejected the notion that his relationship with the metals tycoon led him to push for lower aluminium tariffs when he was the European Union trade commissioner.
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